The 25 Most-Hated Books (By Book Riot Readers)

It’s a reality of the reading life that sometimes you’re going to read a book and hate it. Here at the Riot, we like to focus on the awesome books, the books we can’t stop talking about and sharing with other people who love to read, but we’re also really nosy curious. So last week we asked you to spill the three books you just hated. 937 Riot readers responded and listed 747 unique titles. Most of the books were only mentioned once or twice. But, well, a handful of them got a whole lot of un-love.

What do you make of this list? How many of these have you read? Loved? Hated?

It’s interesting that this is a mix of classics–likely books you were forced to read in school–and uber-popular/commercially successful fiction. But it sorta makes sense, right? The books that are read by the most people have more chances to be hated than the less well-known titles. The big surprise to me? That Twilight was more hated than Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe Jeff should re-think the placement on his list of 100 books to take you from zero to well-read?